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Education:

IN:

  • Milbank
  • Ballpoint pens
  • Classroom clocks
  • Banning laptops in class (apparently) 
  • The blob statue in front of Law Library
  • Saying “The College” to refer to Barnard
  • Butler stacks (reject modernity embrace tradition)

OUT:

  • PrezBo
  • PrezBei </3
  • Summer reading 
  • Lecture crushes
  • Barnard Year of Science
  • Evening classes
  • Typing notes in lectures
  • Pencil cases
  • Evolution 
  • Knowledge 
  • Taking too many classes
  • Being pre-law
  • Telling people you’re pre-law
  • The rotating tooth statue on Law Bridge 
  • Columbia Being a T5 or T10 [don’t hit Prezbo up]
  • Syllabi with required books that aren’t on LibGen OR in Butler

Entertainment:

IN:

  • Bwog
  • Twitter
  • Red (Taylor’s Version) 
  • Rewatching Glee
  • Posting about Sidechat on your Instagram story for a free donut
  • Reading books in their original language
  • Avant garde theatre of the 1930s
  • Looking for joy
  • Swimming
  • Reading angry comments on Bwog about the phrase Barnumbia
  • Making little pillow forts if you have free space under a lofted bed
  • Going to museums alone
  • 80s/90s Music
  • Going to movie theatres
  • Blue Steel
  • Deleting TikTok

OUT:

  • Spec, Fed, Blue and White, etc.
  • Le Tigre
  • Sidechat
  • Whatever’s trending on Netflix right now
  • Writing angry comments on Bwog about the phrase Barnumbia
  • Doja Cat
  • Telling people you deleted TikTok

Fashion:

IN:

  • Fair Isle Sweaters
  • Sunglasses when it’s dark outside 
  • Being overdressed
  • Arch support
  • “Telling me I look cute today”
  • Umbrellas
  • Headbands
  • Fringe

OUT:

  • Sandals
  • Exposed feet
  • Loud watches

Food:

IN:

  • Drinking water
  • Garden of Eden Supermarket
  • Community Food & Juice mixed berry lemonade 
  • Canned kombucha
  • Hot tea
  • Morton Williams watermelon
  • JJs black bean burger
  • Absinthe
  • Liter jugs of black milk tea from H-Mart 
  • John Jay adding a nook station menu online
  • Making your own pasta
  • 72nd Street Trader Joe’s
  • Constant snacking
  • Making bread in your dorm 

OUT:

  • JJ’s smoothies (I haven’t been able to get one yet…)
  • Chewing loudly
  • The peach smoothie at JJ’s (fly high girly)
  • Cafe East rose oolong boba (RIP!!! don’t hit me up)
  • JJ’s Place Impossible burger
  • Mudd Blue Java

Health:

IN:

  • Iron supplements for your suspected anemia
  • Reapplying sunscreen
  • Unplugging
  • Nourishing yourself 
  • Taking your rings off as soon as you get back from class 

OUT:

  • Canker sores
  • Sleep Deprivation

Lifestyle:

IN:

  • Fire Hazard Lerner 510
  • Riverside Drive
  • Drunk texting
  • Loving and cherishing your friends
  • Treating your Woodbridge apartment as a walkup
  • Contact paper
  • Lesbianism
  • Peace
  • Realizing it’s not that deep
  • Teddy bears
  • Lavender

OUT:

  • Gender expression rigidity
  • Nicknames
  • Labeling your sexuality
  • Being mean to your mom or dad
  • Collaborative Spotify playlists
  • Making plans more than a week in advance
  • Things costing money 
  • Phones
  • Wasps (both the bugs and the person genre)
  • Queen Elizabeth II
  • The English Monarchy as a whole (rip lizzy)
  • The dead spotted lantern flies outside Diana
  • Stepping in puddles 
  • Columbia Nihilism
  • Senior year nostalgia
  • Taking the infinitesimally small Woodbridge elevator
  • Hot people in the elevator
  • Broadway (the avenue)
  • Amazon dot com
  • Open lawns on campus
  • Hurricane Ida
  • Wifi
  • Moths

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